Cleaning your bokken.

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[AikiSean!]

Any reccomendations on how to clean and cleaning materials to use? A fellow student told me Murphy's Wood oil, but if a Bokken has a finish on it what does an oil do? Or am I totally missing the point?

Thanks in Advance.

[Jill N]

Watch out for the bokken sanitation department. You never know when they might show up and do an inspection.
:)

[arjan de vries]

I never clean it. But I must add I do not use it very often. I do inspect it for splinters though.

Arjan

[Charles]

I clean mine by wacking it with vigor and against those of my dojo mates.

To just get the dust off, though, I do a simple cut in the air 300 times or so.

[Zoli Elo]

I use Old English oil after a light fine grain sanding proceeded by a rub down with a course hand towel. The towel removes dead skin which tends to adhere, the sanding removes splinters, and the oil helps protect the "fresh" wood.

[ElizabethCastor]

Any reccomendations on how to clean and cleaning materials to use? A fellow student told me Murphy's Wood oil, but if a Bokken has a finish on it what does an oil do? Or am I totally missing the point?


Ummmm, if you're totally missing the point isn't that a jo? :D :D :D

[David Humm]

Ummmm, if you're totally missing the point isn't that a jo? :D :D :D
Not if the bokken is a Shibasen (no pointy bit) :)

[siwilson]

Cleaning Bokken!!!???

Whatever next!!!

People will be washing their belts!!!!!!

:D

[j0nharris]

In the past I've used Tung oil, or linseed oil (get the kind with no lead in it!).
I recently received a beautiful jo for my birthday (Yeah, my wife gave me a stick! for my birthday, though it is a very nice stick.
It's a very hard wood, and our head instructor, who does fine woodwork suggested a coat of lemon oil on it.

Cleaning Bokken!!!???

Whatever next!!!

:D

Those blood stains just get so ugly, though!

[Bronson]

Those blood stains just get so ugly, though!

That's not ugly....that's character :D

Bronson